Is Litify or Tabs3 better?

Neither clearly leads. Litify starts at On request and Tabs3 at $69/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Litify or Tabs3?

Litify starts at On request and Tabs3 at $69/month.

Does Litify or Tabs3 run on more platforms?

Litify runs on Web, iOS, Android. Tabs3 runs on Windows, Web, iOS, Android.

What is Litify best used for?

Litify is most often used for high volume plaintiff firms running mass tort matters with thousands of claimants, insurance defence operations needing matter management across many concurrent files, corporate legal departments needing matter intake and outside counsel spend reporting, multi-office practices needing referral tracking and consistent intake across locations. Of those, high volume plaintiff firms running mass tort matters with thousands of claimants and insurance defence operations needing matter management across many concurrent files are not what Tabs3 is typically brought in for.

What can Litify do that Tabs3 cannot?

Litify covers Native Salesforce application, Intake and referral management, Matter management, Reporting and dashboards. Tabs3 covers Tabs3 Billing, Trust accounting, General ledger and accounts payable, PracticeMaster.

Legal · head to head

Litify vs Tabs3

Litify

Legal

Legal case and matter management built natively on Salesforce

From: On request
Rated: -

Full review Website

Tabs3

Legal

Billing, trust and general ledger accounting for small and mid-sized US law firms

From: $69/month
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

Each has a real cost: Litify pricing is not published anywhere and there is no entry tier, so a firm cannot judge affordability without entering a sales process.; Tabs3 the interface follows Windows desktop conventions from an earlier era, so new fee earners and staff take longer to train than they would on a browser-based competitor.
They diverge on capability: Litify covers Native Salesforce application, Tabs3 covers Tabs3 Billing.
Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Litify and Tabs3 actually diverge.

Attributes where Litify and Tabs3 differ
Attribute	Litify	Tabs3
Starting price	On request	$69/month
Pricing model	quote	Per user per month
Platforms	Web, iOS, Android	Windows, Web, iOS, Android

Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Legal).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Litify

Native Salesforce application
Intake and referral management
Matter management
Reporting and dashboards
Mass tort handling

Only in Tabs3

Tabs3 Billing
Trust accounting
General ledger and accounts payable
PracticeMaster
On-premises or cloud subscription

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Litify

High volume plaintiff firms running mass tort matters with thousands of claimantsnot Tabs3
Insurance defence operations needing matter management across many concurrent filesnot Tabs3
Corporate legal departments needing matter intake and outside counsel spend reportingnot Tabs3
Multi-office practices needing referral tracking and consistent intake across locationsnot Tabs3

Tabs3

Small firms billing hourly that want billing and the firm general ledger in one system rather than reconciling twonot Litify
Practices that must run three-way trust reconciliation without a separate bookkeeping packagenot Litify
Firms that need an on-premises deployment because of client or insurer restrictions on cloud-hosted matter datanot Litify
Long-established practices replacing a decades-old billing system while keeping accounting in housenot Litify

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Litify

Pricing is not published anywhere and there is no entry tier, so a firm cannot judge affordability without entering a sales process.
The system being administered is Salesforce, so realising the configurability requires Salesforce administration skills most firms must hire or contract for.
Implementation is a configuration project measured in months, so it is not a system a firm can adopt quickly during a busy period.
That configurability means two Litify firms can run materially different systems, which makes external support and staff mobility harder.
There is no public documentation; the support site is behind a customer login, so buyers cannot assess the product depth before committing.

Tabs3

The interface follows Windows desktop conventions from an earlier era, so new fee earners and staff take longer to train than they would on a browser-based competitor.
On-premises deployment puts backup, disaster recovery, server upgrades and patching on the firm, which small practices without IT support routinely underestimate.
It is built around hourly and flat fee billing, so a contingency practice tracking case costs and settlement disbursements will find the case financial model a poor fit.
PracticeMaster case management is priced separately from billing, so the advertised per-user rate is not what a firm wanting matter management actually pays.
Choosing the on-premises option no longer avoids a subscription, because it is billed per user per month like the hosted version.

Pricing, plan by plan

Litify

On request

Litify$undefined/year
- Quoted per customer with no published rates
- Sold as a bundled subscription including the Salesforce platform entitlement
- Implementation and configuration quoted separately

Tabs3

$69/month

OnSite Subscription$69/month
- Deployed on the firm server
- Billing, trust accounting and general ledger
- PracticeMaster add-on at 32 USD per user per month
Tabs3 Cloud$89/month
- Hosted by the vendor
- Billing, trust accounting and general ledger
- PracticeMaster add-on at 35 USD per user per month

Which should you pick?

Choose Litify if

You need native salesforce application.
You work on Web, iOS, Android.
You also want intake and referral management.

Litify review

Choose Tabs3 if

You need tabs3 billing.
You work on Windows, Web, iOS, Android.
You also want trust accounting.

Tabs3 review

Questions people ask

Is Litify or Tabs3 better?: Neither clearly leads. Litify starts at On request and Tabs3 at $69/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Litify or Tabs3?: Litify starts at On request and Tabs3 at $69/month.
Does Litify or Tabs3 run on more platforms?: Litify runs on Web, iOS, Android. Tabs3 runs on Windows, Web, iOS, Android.
What is Litify best used for?: Litify is most often used for high volume plaintiff firms running mass tort matters with thousands of claimants, insurance defence operations needing matter management across many concurrent files, corporate legal departments needing matter intake and outside counsel spend reporting, multi-office practices needing referral tracking and consistent intake across locations. Of those, high volume plaintiff firms running mass tort matters with thousands of claimants and insurance defence operations needing matter management across many concurrent files are not what Tabs3 is typically brought in for.
What can Litify do that Tabs3 cannot?: Litify covers Native Salesforce application, Intake and referral management, Matter management, Reporting and dashboards. Tabs3 covers Tabs3 Billing, Trust accounting, General ledger and accounts payable, PracticeMaster.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Litify: Do we sign a separate contract with Salesforce?

Not according to Litify's published services agreement, which defines Litify as a reseller of the Salesforce services and defines the purchase as a combined offering of the platform plus the Litify application. You buy one subscription from Litify. Confirm how the platform appears on your own order form before signing.

Tabs3: Is Tabs3 right for a personal injury firm working on contingency?

No. It is built for hourly and flat fee billing with a firm general ledger. A contingency practice needs case cost tracking and settlement disbursement handling, which is what CASEpeer and Filevine are built around.

Litify: Is Litify for personal injury or corporate work?

Both, but differently. Plaintiff firms use it for high volume personal injury and mass tort, insurance defence firms for case volume, and corporate legal departments for matter intake and spend management rather than billing.

Tabs3: Can I still buy Tabs3 as a perpetual licence?

No published perpetual price exists. The on-premises option, called OnSite Subscription, starts at 69 USD per user per month, with the hosted Tabs3 Cloud starting at 89 USD per user per month.

Litify: Is it suitable for a small firm?

No. It is sold to mid-market and enterprise operations and no entry tier is marketed. The implementation and administration requirements do not amortise at small headcounts.

Tabs3: Does it replace QuickBooks?

For most firms yes. It includes a double-entry general ledger and accounts payable, which is the usual reason firms choose it over billing-only products.

Litify vs Tabs3

Litify

Tabs3

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Litify

Only in Tabs3

What people use each for

Litify

Tabs3

Where each one falls short

Litify

Tabs3

Pricing, plan by plan

Litify

Tabs3

Which should you pick?

Choose Litify if

Choose Tabs3 if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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